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In early February 2021, Regional Disaster Management Agency of Central Java found 43 flood maps in Semarang.
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Flood stroke after extreme rainfalls intensified in Semarang.
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Extreme rain phenomenon is triggered by globally increasing Earth’s temperature.
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Global warming is happening fast because of environmental damage and the use of dirty energy.
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Global warming that affects Antartica’s ice melt, has impact on sea level rise in Indonesia.
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SINKING IN SILENCE
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Hello...
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Hello Dol
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Hello Ren
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How’re you doing?
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I'm good. How about you?
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I’m good... good.
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What are you busy with now?
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Nothing much, no gigs, nothing. What’s up?
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I was thinking of doing a project on climate crisis.
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Are you interested?
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How exciting. What’s the plan?
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I will be off from Surabaya
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Where are you now?
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I’m in Jakarta
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Ooh, let’s meet in the middle (of Java) alright?
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Let’s gooo.
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Just keep me updated.
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Okay, will do.
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Bye.
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Hi, I’m Doly Harahap.
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People know me as the musician, but photography is my other passion.
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Analog camera is my choice, because when I take a picture, I should choose a subject that tells.
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Irene’s invitation, has challenged me, to start a trip.
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We are dispersed to see the impact of climate crisis in java’s nothern coastal area.
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And I’m starting from the west, Jakarta.
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Mangare. Gresik, East Java
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My name is irene barlian.
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I am a documentary photographer based in Jakarta.
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While doly started to trace down the west side of java
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I’m starting my story from the east.
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And Gresik will be the first regency to explore.
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Tracing down the north coast of Java will be too bad to experience solo.
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So, Doly and I were decided to befriended with different pals in every town we stopped off.
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And in Gresik, I am with Ade Putri,
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...an indonesian culinary enthusiast.
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We will explore aquaculture area, assets of this town.
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In Jakarta, I am tracing down the north coast,
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in Luar Batang, Penjaringan district to be precise.
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And I do not expect,
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...that today the mainland elevation is below sea level.
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This embankment is border between the sea and the settlement,
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...and a savior from seawater overflow.
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Luar Batang and the surrounding area seems frequently flooding.
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Foremost during monthly tidal wave,
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...with wave height that can surpass the embankment.
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To prove it, I met a local who can explain what is going on.
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Good afternoon ma’am, I’m Doly. I just passed by.
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Are you the subdistrict head?
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Yes, I am.
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What is behind this wall?
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The sea.
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Directly adjacent to the sea?
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Yes, it is.
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So this wall must’ve been here long time?
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Yes, it’s been here quite long, but it has been built gradually.
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So it wasn’t this tall?
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No, it wasn’t.
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How many times has it been built up?
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3 times.
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So the inundation is caused by sea overflow, or leakage?
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If the wall hasn’t been elevated, the water must be overflowed.
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Now it’s only leaking a little. Does tidal flooding happen every week?
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Does tidal flooding happen every week?
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Tidal flooding usually happens once in a month, for a one full week.
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Oh, that’s why i saw puddles. How to suck it out?
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Subdistrict 2 has a pump.
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This area is subdistrict 3.
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When water is receding, the pump sucks the water back to the sea. And the water goes back into the middle of the sea.
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What I am seeing before my eyes. tingles a question.
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How the local community can get clean water for their daily use?
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It turns out. most of the citizens of Luar Batang subdistrict and who domiciled in north Jakarta should buy clean water.
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What does the water used for ma’am?
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For bathing, washing.
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Do you buy this everyday?
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Every other day.
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Do you live afar?
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No, just around the neighborhood.
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In a day. One family approximately needs 12 gallons of water.
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Those are equal to twenty thousand rupiah.
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Sum by month. One family needs to pay minimum of six hundred thousand rupiah.
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If Penjaringan subdistrict is residented by lower-middle class citizens.
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Where most of the citizens are blue-collar workers and small business owners
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So clean water becomes high-cost supplies in the capital city.
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While irene traveled with Ade Putri,
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I invited Vira Talisa, a musician from Jakarta.
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After we met up, we traced down Muara Baru harbour...
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...to see the condition in industrial sites.
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My prediction was right, the condition there is nearly identical.
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I thought the trip has over, now here is the challenge.
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what’s that? Rocks...
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Betta Fish!
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They won’t survive here.
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Wet met Pak Frengki.
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He was a worker who has been making a living in the harbour for decades.
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We tried find some information on how locals adapt and survive.
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Hello, sir.
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I’m vira.
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I am Doly.
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Mr. Frenky, do you work here?
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Yes, I work as fishing boat mechanic.
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I installed and fixed radio communication system on the boat.
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Is this your office?
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Yes, it is my office inside.
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Is there a workshop?
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Yes, there is.
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The door used to be here,
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...but we moved it to the front since it was regularly flooding.
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In 2000, the office ground was elevated,
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...so we moved (the door) to the front.
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You just told us and pointed that the door was around here.
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Where to be precise?
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Oh, this was the former door. It made of iron.
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But it is closed now.
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The ground level should have been lower back then, has it?
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Yes, it has been elevated around 1 and a half meter.
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Flood issue in north coast of Jakarta is an old news.
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Some area that used to be mainland, has changed and become part of the sea.
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It is caused by sea level rise along with land subsidence.
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According to indonesian institute of sciences that...
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...every year Jakarta coastal area is sinking by an everage of 2,5 cm a year.
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At the end of this trip there is one more question left,
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...how long will the embankment be the answer in the capital city?
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I can barely picture the condition of Jakarta in the future.
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This aquaculture is in Mangare island.
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This island is part of java island, merge with silt it bengawan solo river since 19th century.
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Local community of Gresik has strong bond with milkfish.
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The bonding story has been formed since sunan giri era,
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...sunan giri was one of wali songo (revered saints of islam) in mid 15th century.
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There are around 32 thousand hectares of aquaculture in this area.
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With 40 thousand tons of milkfish production.
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Today the story of milkfish glory is fading,
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...alongside with the issue they are facing.
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The size of these large fish pond is lessen day by day.
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Wave that crushed the embankment made by the locals has caused disappearance of aquaculture.
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Simultaneously with sea level rise that affect abrasion.
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Our next steps took us to locals who worked in the aquaculture.
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Mr. Ali and Mr. Nastain.
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They are responsible for building up bamboo embankment with pile of mud.
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Excuse me, sir.
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So, if January came with extreeme wave,
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...will this embankment be gone?
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Well if we didn’t make this, it will be gone.
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That’s why we build this frequently.
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Is it effective?
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Just temporarily.
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How long will it last?
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A half year is the longest.
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It it so bad here, tens of hectares have gone.
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Where was the farthest?
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There, in the middle (of the sea).
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Then we were seeing how mangrove forest is vital to detain abrasion.
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We went by the boat with a resident named Gatot Winarko.
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He also told us, initially, this was milkfish aquaculture area.
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But today, it is part of the sea.
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Here, by this boat position, it used to be aquaculture area, up to 400 meters to the sea.
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Now it is totally gone by abrasion.
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The evidence that it is actually happening.
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As you can see in front of us,
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...in 2016 mangroves were only 10 meters from our position.
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Mangrove vegetation has clearly seen from here. Now it has declined 20 to 25 meters.
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So every year coastline is declining 10-11 meters.
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When the wave meets Madura strait stream.
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The undersea movement is like excavator scraping inside.
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Together with mr. Gatot, the tracing went on.
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He explained that mangrove was their hope so the abrasion does not get worse.
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We are at Bengawan Solo estuary where mangrove vegetation is thick alongside of it.
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For your information, mangrove is a natural strainer to conserve the mainland.
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Fishermens preserved mangrove to protect the aquaculture from tidal wave,
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But only a particular mangrove species were planted.
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Their species characters are distinctive. Especially the root.
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Some roots, big ones, go down into the ground.
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Some others are called aerial roots.
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Its tiny roots come out to the surface.
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Meanwhile, in the other side of aquaculture,
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...the locals were harvesting milkfish.
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As we gathered information,
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...the locals had to harvest fish earlier than expected.
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So that they don’t suffer more loss.
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It has to be done over threatening
Wave slam during rainy season.
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If the embankment collapsed. Milkfish will escape to the high seas.
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Coastal abrasion phenomenon in gresik threatens milkfish aquaculture, livelihood of the local community.
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Not just losing their livelihood.
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Coastal abrasion abolished special bond between local communities with milkfish...
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...as part of their long socio-historical identity.
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Tambak Rejo - Semarang, Central Java
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On the next trip, we went to Semarang old town that has aged gracefully.
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Various dutch historical buildings have became tourist attractions in the town that has lasted for over 470 years.
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Semarang old town is trying to solve the flood, that frequently blockade the area.
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While filming the historical site, I was investigating whether the city development aligned with the adaptation plan.
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Whether what has been done effective to solve the issue.
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So I visited the neighborhood in the old town.
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A resident told me that tidal flood (rob) has regularly inundate the neighborhood.
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When rob came, all of this area will be drowned.
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Rob and flood are the just the same.
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But rob is seawater flood.
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Yes it is.
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But when rob came with rain, it is just doubled the risk.
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Flood that the locals have been facing is not over yet.
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I am inquistive,
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...why does it so difficut for Semarang to overome the problem that has been happening for a long time.
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Seeking for answers, I met Mr. Rukardi Achmadi.
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A historian who would tell me about the city that has been established since the 19th century.
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The solution was quite working at that time.
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However, the city is developing, population is increasing.
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What was once a a swamp became residential.
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It againts nature. That should have been water reservoir.
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Rob is indeed a natural phenomena.
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If human didn’t intrude, seawater that sweeps mainland will be absorbed by the coastal vegetatation.
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Since the vegetation is destructed, water reservoir became residentials, tidal flood is happening more.
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Year by year, not only the decline of shoreline but land subsidence is also happening in Semarang.
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From that discussion I can see the big picure.
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That flooding is a major issue that is inseparable.
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Ever since the colonialization to indonesia independence days.
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On the next day, I met the panturas,
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...indie musician from Bandung.
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We came to Tambak Rejo,
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...that is widely known as fishermen village in Semarang.
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Under the bridge, I told him about our trip in Gresik.
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How abrasion has threatened coastal community’s livelihood.
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I tell stories with pictures.
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Story about how climate change is real and it is happening in Indonesia.
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Climate crisis is not only happening in some cities, but in numerous regions along the northern coast of java.
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By the conversation I had with the locals, besides Gresik, there is also accurance of abrasion in Tambak Rejo.
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After sharing stories with local people. Now it is time for the panturas to perform in front of pantura citizens.
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By stories shared by the locals, we were inquistive to witness the real situation in the field.
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And all the stories they told me are facts.
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Tidal flood has hit the residential areas for the last 10 years.
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We visited house of Mr. Suryono, one of the resident.
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To see the condition of his house and listen to his story,
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...about how he survived in the land that is sinking day by day.
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Asalamu alaikum.
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Wa alaikum salam.
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Do you mind if I come inside?
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Come on in.
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It used to be 4 meters tall, now it’s only 1,5 meter left.
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Did you elevate the floor gradually?
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Yes. First, I elevated the bedroom so that I can sleep,
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...then the other bedroom, next is the kitchen.
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How about the floor height? Has it always been this low, or even lower?
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It was lower, then elevated little by little if I had money.
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Can I come inside?
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Sure... Watch your head.
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Apparently, to survive in the neighborhood, Mr. Suryono had to elevate his house.
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He had it elevated for at least 3 times in the last 10 years.
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It was hard for him to leave this inherited propery from his parents.
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Moreover he was born, grew up here and made a living for his wife and the two kids.
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On the next day, I went to a location that has direct access with the Java sea.
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Unfortunately, The Panturas cannot join me since they need to back to Bandung.
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Here I was, in Tambak Rejo public cemetary.
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It needed a perfect timing to reach this place.
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When the tide was low.
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I can’t imagine,what if the resident wanted to visit relative who is burned here.
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Coincidentally I met a local named Joko Mulyono.
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He told me about his relatives who were burned in this area.
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Whose graves are these?
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This is my grandmother’s, Mrs. Duneki.
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That one is my Mrs. Sri. Mother of my father.
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One from mother’s side, the other one is from your father’s side?
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Yes.
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The grave there has been moved since it was sinking.
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The children were sad seeing it sinking, so the skulls have been transfered to Karang Roto.
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The other one is still there. I will show you if it is seen.
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You can see the headstone still.
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Will you move the grave?
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Well, if we can.
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Since the situation is a bit hard, we need to let it go.
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For people in Tambak Rejo, it is not easy to leave their hometown.
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A place where they live and grow up, and also make a living for the their family.
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They keep on trying to find a way, to survive the abrasion threat until the end.
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Muara Gembong - Bekasi Regency
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Hello, cil. Where are you?
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Oh you’ve been waiting?
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Ok. I’m coming over. Ok....
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On the next trip, we traced down Kampung Beting, Muara Gembong, in West Bekasi, West java.
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I was accompanied by Aseriska, or Icil.
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Hey.
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Heeey.
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Shall we go there?
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Let’s go.
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It is so fun that she would bluntly express her thought on something spontaneously.
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By the locals , we got information that tide will come at certain time.
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And that information is what made us visit this village.
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Mas Doly, I want to ask you.
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You usually post pictures, most of the them are gigs, the musicians...
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I was surprised that you were here.
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Why? What are your concern? You used analog, didn’t you?
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Well, I capture anything actually.
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I learn so much through photography.
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I learn to raise awareness on the environment. Just like this.
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It is just so ironic that school is also sinking.
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When I make a complete series of documentary photography, there might be a story to tell by seeing my pictures.
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In my experience, there are so much of humanity that can be captured on camera.
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On the other side, I was wondering,
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...why Kampung Beting residents who are mostly fishermen, still linger in this kind of situation.
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In the past, occording to the elders, these were forest.
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Forest that were converted into farmlands by our ancestors from Tangerang.
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In the begining, the conversion started with removing Citarum to be residential and farmlands.
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This place was crowded back then.
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They even called it dollar village for its fortune.
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There was also a market in here.
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Until oil exploration and the bombing came...
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The densely populated area is over there. It used to be here.
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Thereof, the oldest mosque stood here.
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But as the time passes by, people moved there as a consequence of human intervention.
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Kampung Beting has lost 1,7 hectares of coastal area to abrasion since 12 years ago.
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The more fortunate people move into any other area and left their house with no hassle.
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While for less fortunate ones, it was a hard choice.
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On the next trip, we met Mr. Kurtubi, the village secretary of Pantai Bahagia (Happy Beach),
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...he happened to be visiting Kampung Beting.
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We discussed about how the government responds to this issue.
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The local authority as representation government of Indonesia,
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...together with the community has risen more awareness on mangrove cultivation as the front barrier...
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...to prevent coastal abrasion.
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Mas Doly, please teach me how to use analog camera....
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Sure. On condition, you write a song about the picture.
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Write a song?
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Challenging, isn’t it?
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Hmm interesting. Sure!
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Place your left hand here,
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...hold the camera, shutter is on the right side, control using your index finger.
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Find the focus first.
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Wow it’s heavy.
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2 kgs.
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Yes.. It’s upside down (the view).
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Get into action, be happy in flood. Astaghfirullahal adziim.
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Sinking, not surrendering.
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Local community preserved mangrove to restrain abrasion.
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Besides, Kampung Beting residents processed mangrove to live.
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Women in this village, processed mangrove into food,
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...that the food product is for sale in other region.
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What kind of product do you make?
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These products are especially from mangrove fruit.
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How do you make use of mangrove fruit?
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From mangrove species, Sonneratia, I made a syrup, dodol (sweet toffee).
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For crispy snacks, there are mangrove sticks, crackers, even chocolate.
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They are considered as local cuisine then?
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Yes, since it is the only tree that grows fruit here.
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My trip to Muara Gembong was memorable.
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The village that used to be crowded. Once inhabited by more than 100 families, now its only a half left.
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It is ironic and amazing at the same time,
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...seeing how they survived in this area.
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Cil, I saw you writing. Is the song finished?
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Yes.
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Come on, sing!
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Would you like to listen?
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Di balik senyum cerah yang terlihat...
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...ada jiwa lelah yang berharap.
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Menanti belas kasih ibu pertiwi,
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...memberi celah mempertahankan rumah kami.
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Thank you.
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Will you continue the rest of the song?
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Maybe....
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Pekalongan - Central Java
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After visiting Muara Gembong, I arrived in Pekalongan, central Java.
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My meeting point with Irene.
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However, before that, it is time for me to meet my good friend, Oscar Lolang.
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Ocsar is a singer, who is also a social activist.
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It is seen from his lyrics that carried this message on the issue.
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Now I invited him to explore Pekalongan.
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I have a friend here. His name is Tyan.
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We will visit him and also show you pictures that I took in Muara Maru, Muara Gembong, so you can see it yourself.
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We will tell him about land subsidence in Muara Baru and Muara Gembong, then what about here in Pekalongan?
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Let’s go to Mas Tyan’s and get some coffee.
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Pekalongan, Central Java
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Eventhough Doly and I are in the same town, we traced down different areas.
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I wanted to hear more stories about batik that is stated by Unesco as intangible world heritage.
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I met Citra Subyakto in the city, she is a designer focusing on sustainable or circular fashion.
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Though Pekalongan have had glorious erea on batik,
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...it does not mean that the people are not facing problems.
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Again and again, tidal flood is a threat for coastal community in nothern coast of Java.
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In this town, I met mugi raharjo, a batik businessman whose shop is threatened by tidal flood.
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Tidal flood even swamps his workshop and intrudes batik production every year.
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Did the last tidal flood swamp inside?
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Yes, it did. The ground used to be lower than this.
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We had elevated the floor. Oh, it’s been elevated....
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20 cm height.
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A year after, initially it was this high, this high in the next year,
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...and last year was the highest water level.
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So your house is safe from flooding now?
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Yes, for now. We don’t know about next year.
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Every year the water level seems to get higher.
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We are not sure when it stops.
00:45:37
It is shocking considering the fact that his batik wokshop was 4 kilometers away from the shoreline.
00:45:46
Does tidal flood affect batik production?
00:45:49
Indeed, workers cannot work properly when its flooding.
00:45:52
It better now, since the floor has been elevated even though there were still some puddles.
00:46:00
Does it affect the quality of batik too?
00:46:03
Batik quality depends on the weather, ma’am.
00:46:05
We used particular materials that need hot, dry weather.
00:46:14
If the air is moist.... Colour absorption may be differ.
00:46:20
It affect the solidity of colour too.
00:46:36
Hey
00:46:37
Mas Tyan, it’s Doly. Remember me?
00:46:42
Long time no see!
00:46:44
It’s been two years isn’t it.
00:46:46
Asalamu alaikum.
00:46:47
Wa alaikum salam.
00:46:48
I am with a friend.
00:46:50
Tyan....
00:46:51
Oscar....
00:46:52
Please have a seat. Where have you been?
00:46:53
I was strolling around the city.
00:46:56
Aren’t you tired?
00:46:57
Pretty much.
00:46:58
Coffee time.
00:47:01
Ice milk coffee for me.
00:47:02
Do you have chocolate?
00:47:03
Alright.
00:47:08
What are you up to in Pekalongan, dol?
00:47:11
I was wandering around Pekalongan with oscar.
00:47:17
Before, I took pictures in muara baru, north Jakarta.
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Then I knew that sea level rise has caused land subsidence.
00:47:37
Doly, u’ve promised to let me see some pictures.
00:47:41
Oh, right. I have printed some pictures that I took back then.
00:47:49
Not all of it, but take a look.
00:47:52
This is the problem that northern coastal areas facing, right?.
00:47:54
Yes, it is. Well I was with oscar, and I wanted to catch up with you. So I stopped by.
00:48:27
I’ve been telling you that the disaster has broad impact.
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I think it is not merely the duty of our government.
00:48:42
People in the community must have awareness of this matter too.
00:49:03
Tidal flooding has caused people’s houses around his batik factory drowning.
00:49:21
Today, tidal inundation has stroke half of the paddy fields area to residential,
00:49:33
I walked down the neighborhood and saw it myself how the tidal inundation is getting serious.
00:50:16
The more fortunate residents tried to dug a moat with cement, sand, and rocks.
00:50:20
For some of them the choice is to just leave their house.
00:50:25
But the less fortunate ones had no choice, they must stay in houses with seawater puddling inside.
00:50:34
Has it been 10 years?
00:50:36
Yes this has been happening for 10 years more or less.
00:50:40
The flooding begun in 2009 and the worst was in 2014, up until now.
00:50:49
How many years since this room hasn’t been occupied?
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You can see there are plenty of stuff left unschated.
00:51:00
The deepest was this high.
00:51:08
Now ithas floor under if there aren’t it would be even deeper...
00:51:33
The time I spent with Chitra at Pekalongan really adds to my discovery, about what happened to the northern coast of Java.
00:51:51
In Pekalongan, not only the community is at stake,
00:51:54
...but also sustainability of batik that is this nation’s identity and culture.
00:52:00
Including the people who depend their lives on small scale batik manufacturing.
00:52:36
To prove what Tyan said, Oscar and me visiting the northern Pekalongan. The mangrove eco park to be precise.
00:52:45
We are about to meet with Mr. Wah, who has been managing the area by planting mangroves for decades.
00:52:52
At first he did that, because he was afraid to be hit by tsunami like what happened to Aceh back in 2004.
00:53:00
But today, the mangrove trees that he planted are playing an important role in restraining abrasion...
00:53:05
...caused by sea sea level rise.
00:53:08
It comes with a fact that Pekalongan is facing abrasion up to 50 meters from the coastline.
00:53:16
How long has it been since you’re taking care of the mangroves?
00:53:22
I began tending the mangroves since the end of 2004 and planting them in 2005.
00:53:31
Was it only you in the process or you have any other people helping you?
00:53:35
Since what happened in Aceh I initiated the mangrove planting.
00:53:47
2 months after that the mangroves team came to help developing the site.
00:54:05
With oscar and Mr. Wah, we go to the northern mangrove planting site.
00:54:23
Coincidentally, there is a group of young environmentalist who are busy planting mangroves.
00:54:33
Mr. Wah deliberately allows everyone who cares about the environment to help him planting mangroves.
00:54:40
Eventhough, mangroves are not the main solution for the climate crisis.
00:54:46
But this is the only way they are able to do when it comes to restrain the abrasion,
00:54:50
...also as a small action to decrease global warming
00:55:58
And the most awaited moment arrives.
00:56:01
I met Irene in Pekalongan city.
00:56:15
Then we shared our stories through our photographs.
00:56:20
From muara baru Jakarta, Muara Gembong Bekasi, to Pekalongan city.
00:56:46
From our journey tracing down the north java coastline,
00:56:49
...the rising seawater from icebergs phenomenon holds a lot of unsolved problems.
00:56:55
What we saw, was only a speck of dust from the climate change humongous problem.
00:57:01
But what we know is, climate change is already happening and its affecting people.
00:57:07
Each d ay the coastal area sunk deeper from abrasion.
00:57:13
And Indonesia, this archipelago country is now facing serious threat, until the next 50 years.
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